Top 10 moments of 2022/23 snooker season: No. 9 – Mark Selby compiles ultimate 147 maximum in World Championship final

After the conclusion of another extraordinary snooker season, we pick 10 memorable moments from the 2022/23 campaign as captured by the Eurosport cameras. You can vote for your personal favourite when we reveal our final list of contenders later this month.

No. 9 – Mark Selby compiles ultimate 147 in world final Ad On the 40th anniversary of the maiden 147 break at the World Championship in Sheffield, it was perhaps fitting that we witnessed the first maximum in the final of the sport's blue-chip event.

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With 155 of the 189 competitive maximum breaks compiled this century, it feels like they play a different game since 'The Grinder' studiously plotted his path to his historic break. Yet the unfettered joy of those feted 147 moments remain as poignant in the potting world's modern era as when a gasping commentator Jack Karnehm famously muttered «Good luck, mate» before Cliff lined up the final black amid a groundswell of awe-struck adulation.

The fifth maximum of Mark Selby's celebrated career was a landmark moment with nobody having managed the feat in a world final since the Crucible Theatre first housed the World Championship in 1977. Trailing 9-6 to Luca Brecel in the second session of the final, Selby produced an emphatic response with a 147 that never seemed in any doubt as he cherry-picked 14 reds before teasing the 15th and toughest red down a side rail and into a top pocket with the rest.